Included here is an array of material, both personal and professional. Clippings, bulletins, conference proceedings, committee work, funding applications, photographs, and autographed articles written by Philip Butcher's former students and colleagues at Morgan State University are here. Also included are programs, playbills, and photographs of James Butcher's professional activities at Howard University. A smattering of correspondence can be found within the subject files.
Box 2 Folder 1
Afro-American Literature, 1928-1969
Box 2 Folder 2
William H. Beardsley, 1987-1988
Box 2 Folder 3
Arna Bontemps, 1943-1967
Box 2 Folder 4
William S. Braithwaite, 1928-1970
Box 2 Folder 5
Sterling Brown, 1947-1990
Box 14
Sterling Brown--Phonograph Record, Undated
James Butcher
Box 2 Folder 6
Biographical Info, 1942-1996
Box 14 Folder 1
Howard University Players, 1937, undated, 1937, undated
Box 16
Howard University and Spelman College--Video Tapes and Film, 1965-1966, 1981, 1996, Undated, 1965-1966, 1981, 1996, Undated
Box 2 Folder 7
Howard University--Norway Theatre Workshop, 1949-1950
Box 2 Folder 8
Professorial Career, 1949-1986
Box 2 Folder 9
Plays, 1948-1957
Box 12 Folder 2 to 3
Playbills and Programs, 1935-1983 (2 Folders), 1935-1983
Box 12 Folder 4 to 5
Production Photos, circa 1920s-1960s, 1980s (2 Folders), 1920s-1960s, 1980s
Box 2 Folder 10
General, 1949-1999, Undated, 1949-1999, Undated
Box 2 Folder 11
James Butcher Sr., 1949-1950
Box 2 Folder 12
Margaret Just Butcher, 1947-1957, Undated, 1947-1957, Undated
Box 2 Folder 13
Vada Butcher, 1978-1987
Box 3 Folder 1
Center for Editions of American Authors, 1967-1971
Box 3 Folder 2
Clippings--General, 1951-1984
Box 3 Folder 3
College Language Association, 1956-1986
Box 3 Folder 4
Thomas Cripps, 1988-1989
Box 3 Folder 5
Ossie Davis, 1965
Box 3 Folder 6
Deans of Black Grad Schools, 1975-1992
Box 3 Folder 7
Frederick Douglass, 1967-1992
Box 3 Folder 8
Ralph Ellison, 1942-1976
Box 3 Folder 9
Walter Fisher, 1977-1988
Box 3 Folder 10
Stephen Foreman, undated
Box 3 Folder 11
David Harris, 2005
Box 3 Folder 12
Highlander Folk School, 1953-1961
Box 3 Folder 13
Lincoln Bible, 1864-1933
Box 3 Folder 14
Lincoln and Sheridan Letters, 1864
Box 3 Folder 15
London, 1991
Box 3 Folder 16
MELUS, 1988
Box 13 Folder 8
Kelly Miller Pamphlets, 1900-1917
Modern Language Association, 1974-1982
Box 4 Folder 1
Hubbell Award Committee, 1981-1982
Box 4 Folder 2
Nominating Committee, 1974-1976
Box 4 Folder 3 to 4
Nominating Committee, 1976 (2 Folders), 1976
Morgan State University, 1953-1978
Box 4 Folder 5 to 6
Faculty Pamphlets, 1953-1978 (2 Folders), 1953-1978
Box 4 Folder 7
General, 1958-1961
Box 4 Folder 8
Lucy Moten Fellowship, 1941-1942
Box 4 Folder 9
Negro Writers Conference, 1965
Box 4 Folder 10
The Octoroon
, 1961
Box 4 Folder 11
Permissions--Ethnic Image in Modern America, 1982-1983
Box 4 Folder 12
Printed Materials--Interracial Understanding, 1918-1981
Box 4 Folder 13
Printed Materials--General, 1923-1987
Box 5 Folder 1
Research--Louisiana, 1948-1987
Box 5 Folder 2
Research--The Race Problem, 1918-1980
Box 5 Folder 3
R.S. Simmonds, 1985-1990
Box 5 Folder 4
Southern Negro Youth Conference Bulletin--Autographed, 1937
Box 5 Folder 5
Students, Former--Published Articles, 1986, Undated, 1986, Undated
Box 5 Folder 6
Arlin Turner, 1948-1978
Box 5 Folder 7
Darwin Turner, 1958-1976
Box 5 Folder 8
Mark Twain, 1935-1991
Box 5 Folder 9
University of Iowa--Robert Corrigan, 1969-1970
Box 5 Folder 10
Carl Waltz, 1958-1966
Box 5 Folder 11
World Literature Today
, 1973-1985
Box 5 Folder 12
Richard Wright, 1941-1968